INDIRECT EVIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indirect evidence mean? 

• INDIRECT EVIDENCE (noun)
  The noun INDIRECT EVIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute

  Familiarity information: INDIRECT EVIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIRECT EVIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

circumstantial evidence; indirect evidence

Hypernyms ("indirect evidence" is a kind of...):

evidence ((law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

 Context examples 

The investigators also sought indirect evidence of enterovirus infection by looking for antibodies to enteroviruses made by the immune system in response to an infection.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)

Because telescopes cannot see them, though, astronomers have been hunting for indirect evidence, such as a tell-tale change in the background electromagnetic radiation that permeates the universe, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)